How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

We had another session of the 4e game Sunday. I just haven't reported it yet, because my wrists have been wonky lately, so I've been...

I've noticed, running 4e, that PC hit point totals don't really matter. On a round by round basis, yeah -- if they're bloodied, ...

Had another session of my 4e game last night. Things are starting to come together. Still some arguments, but everyone is at least trying to...

Why do some people try to get others to play their game by explaining why the game they're already playing "isn't fun?" Th...

I'm starting to think about homebrewing my own system. Mostly, I blame Trollsmyth's Moldvay/Basic hack, and Amagi Games. 4e coming...

Huh. So, I always thought of my first campaign as post-apocalyptic, in genre. Then noisms comes along with a new and exciting definition -...

The other day, szilard (of Neitherworld Stories) noted that there are lots of character features that aren't powers in 4e. Which got m...

I'm a little late to the party, but here's the deal: James Edward, from Lamentations of the Flame Princess, has challenged the membe...

Do you read Darths & Droids? Imagine DM of the Rings, Star Wars style, except that the game master in question isn't nearly as muc...

Noisms, of Monsters and Manuals, is writing an Australian/Cthulu mythos Labyrinth Lord supplement. And: Even better than that, if we'...

An idea has come to me, for a WoAdWriMo adventure: a rift in the earth, surrounded by ashen wasteland. Within it thrive all manner of strang...

I haven't run that many dragons in my DMing career. One or two, here or there, usually as NPCs, not actually intended for fighting. Whic...

It's rare that you're simply presented with a knob whose only two positions are "Make History" and "Flee Your Gloriou...

A thread on theRPGsite a while back got me thinking about minotaurs. I noticed on my first read through of the 4e Monster Manual that they ...

The crazy-hard deadliness of the Irontooth enouncter has to be intentional. It's 1evel 6, for a group of 1evel 1 PCs, which by the book ...

Maggie and Qwerty, playing Thyme and Scourge respectively, have both written their own recaps of last night's game. Maggie has been w...

Tonight was a good night. The party finished the fight with Irontooth. They won by a hair--Scourge, the warlock, gambled his last action poi...

Another Sunday means another session of the 4e game. (Which needs a name; I had planned to name it after their adventuring guild name, but t...

I'm kind of committed, but I'm still not sure exactly what I want to do. I'll figure it out, likely at the last minute, but rig...

I got a sort of strange idea today, while I was out walking the dog. What if I used a combat oriented RPG (4e is what I would use, but that...